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Child Support is money paid by a parent, who isn’t living with his or her children, to help cover the cost of their care. Child Support helps guarantee that children’s basic needs are met: from food, shelter and clothes to education, transportation and medical expenses.

Fairfield County Child Support Enforcement Agency helps ensure that child support is received by identifying paternity, establishing child support orders and enforcing spousal support.

Common Terms:

Obligee:

Any person, including a state or
political subdivision, to whom a duty of support is owed.

Cash Medical:

An amount ordered to be paid in a
child support order toward the cost of health insurance provided by a public
entity, another parent, or a person with whom the child resides, through
employment or otherwise, or for other medical costs not covered by insurance.

​NOIW:

Notice of Income Withholding - A
notice that requires an employer, financial institution, or other party to
deduct support payments directly from the income of the obligor.
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